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Last week's HTML5 Dev Conf in San Francisco was "illuminating," writes Andre Behrens. In this post, Behrens collects the PowerPoint slides from a series of talks on Web performance, the mobile Web and other key issues. "I got a strong sense of where the web development community sees itself, and where it would like to go," he writes.

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HTML5 might have more lasting power among developers for platforms, not browsers, writes Matt Asay. Frameworks such as Ember.js are allowing developers to use their familiarity with HTML5 as well as native code to create rich hybrid applications, he notes.

A lack of mobile-browser support for HTML5 Web applications is hindering the markup language's adoption, says Mozilla's principal open-Web evangelist, Christian Heilmann. He blames hardware producers for encouraging users to buy new smartphones rather than update old browsers, leaving many users stuck with browsers that don't support HTML5 features. "The mobile environments that we have right now like iOS and Android treat HTML5 as the red-headed stepchild in the basement," Heilmann said at a developer conference.

Microsoft has launched a new modern.ie website intended to promote the HTML5 web standards. The site is critical of the "webkit" HTML5 standard used by Apple and Google, which allows code that runs better in some browsers than in others.

Steve Jobs once blasted Adobe's bloated Flash product -- but the software house might yet get the last laugh with an HTML5 toolkit that could threaten Apple's app ecosystem. Adobe's products could help to establish a de facto HTML5 industry standard, making it easier for developers to transition away from native apps, Matt Asay argues. "Adobe may have the last laugh, if its HTML5 tools work as advertised," he writes.

HTML5 allows search engines to skim media such as images and videos far more easily, especially when developers build and label their sites correctly. This article argues that the merits of HTML5 content-tagging aren't in dispute, and that "with HTML5 rapidly becoming the new standard for web design it is just a matter of time before HTML5 sites outrank xHTML sites" on the major search engines.